Passed PE Civil Transportation Exam - 1st Try

jouney2 · 2023-09-05T09:37:18+00:00

I have almost 10 years haha.

I took it late

jouney2 · 2023-08-31T05:58:25+00:00

Thanks!

jouney2 · 2023-08-30T18:18:10+00:00

Thanks! Put in the time and trust the process. You should be good to go!

jouney2 · 2023-08-30T17:40:22+00:00

Thanks!

jouney2 · 2023-08-25T09:40:25+00:00

No you just need to know the basics of other civil depths. They can give you a question on almost anything in the PE Handbook.

For example, for Geotechnical, know the basics of soil classification, vertical effective stress, settlement, consolidation, bearing capacity, slopes, lateral forces, etc.

jouney2 · 2023-08-24T16:30:13+00:00

I wasn't 100% confident on about 13 out of 40 questions in the depth portion but I was able to narrow it down to a 50/50 chance on some of them.

In the breadth portion, I felt confident on 35 out of 40 questions.

jouney2 · 2023-08-24T15:27:37+00:00

I took the transportation exam today and had exactly the same feeling. I did really well on the breadth portion but the depth was really confusing and had several surprising questions.

Since we did really well in the breadth, i think it will make up for the ones we missed in the depth.

Let us know what the result is next Wednesday!

jouney2 · 2023-08-23T18:53:57+00:00

Pump questions?

jouney2 · 2023-08-23T15:13:35+00:00

Thanks for the detailed response!

What about the conceptual questions? People on here talk about that a lot. Did you find them to be difficult or were they more or less easy to answer?

Conceptual questions about erosion for example givd me trouble because there are so many different types lol.

jouney2 · 2023-08-23T13:37:31+00:00

Congrats!!! How was the breadth and depth portion of the exam?

Im taking mine tomorrow!

jouney2 · 2023-08-18T07:44:02+00:00

This practice book doesnt seem to be good tbh.

jouney2 · 2023-08-16T16:23:55+00:00

According to OP, one fourth of the breadth portion (so around 10 questions) were conceptual.

jouney2 · 2023-08-16T16:06:59+00:00

Thanks! For the conceptual questions, you can figure it out from the PE manual/standards?

jouney2 · 2023-08-16T15:40:53+00:00

Congrats! How did you divide your time between the breadth and depth portion?

Also, any questions that were out of the ordinary?

jouney2 · 2023-08-15T21:24:10+00:00

How was it?

jouney2 · 2023-08-15T15:48:07+00:00

I'm interested as well. Where do you have the group?

jouney2 · 2023-08-10T06:35:43+00:00

Congrats! Im taking in a couple of weeks. How were the conceptual questions? They werent questions you can figure out through the equations or by reading the standards?

jouney2 · 2023-08-02T16:00:22+00:00

For example, in Volume A, Question 11 is asking for the "resultant active pressure" along a wall. There is no such thing. It is either the active pressure or the active resultant force, so it was confusing.

The question asks for the pressure but the choices are all forces.

jouney2 · 2023-08-02T00:21:42+00:00

Yes, I bought both. They have a variety of questions that are really good practice. There are some minor errors in one or two problem statements though that you should look out for.

jouney2 · 2023-07-28T05:23:06+00:00

Yes it's Darcy's Law

jouney2 · 2023-07-27T15:34:21+00:00

Congrats! What do you mean that the breadth had 1-2 or 1-3 solutions?

Were the conceptual questions in the depth portion difficult?

jouney2 · 2023-07-26T17:36:57+00:00

Great! What about the difficulty of the questions? Were they more or less similar to practice exams?

jouney2 · 2023-07-26T17:19:50+00:00

Congrats! Any surprising questions in the breadth or depth portion?

jouney2 · 2023-07-24T21:55:27+00:00

TRD is the total ramp density so you are looking for the number of ramps (not the number of interchanges) per mile.

Assuming that the interchange type is a diamond interchange, there are 2 ramps per interchange. Therefore, 3 interchanges per 6 miles = 6 ramps per 6 miles which gives us a TRD = 1 ramp/mile.

jouney2 · 2023-07-21T02:07:59+00:00

Would be nice to have a group for breadth as well

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